Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 478 Opening the Sea Ban

Lightly knocking on the table, Li Jing looked at Zhou Hengchen and said, "Hengchen, lock it up."

Zhou Hengchen was startled when he heard the words, then nodded quickly: "Commander, I know how to do it."

Li Jing smiled, and he could only point to Zhou Hengchen, the head of the personnel department, and hoped that these people did not go too far.

Turning his head and beckoning to Zhang Tongchang, Zhang Tongchang hastily passed a few pages to Li Jing.

Li Jing took it and handed it to Shen Zheng. After Shen Zheng had finished reading it, he asked Shen Zheng to pass on the materials one by one.

After everyone finished watching, Li Jing smiled and said, "This is when Zhang Ao was surveying the land, and I asked him to do it by the way. What do you think about dividing Anhui, Jiangsu and two lakes in this way?"

Everyone turned their heads to look at Zhang Ao who was seated at the bottom. Except for Shen Zheng who knew that Li Jing held Zhang Ao in high regard, everyone said in their hearts, "I can't imagine that Li Jing thinks so highly of this person who doesn't show his face. We didn’t know anything about such a big thing.”

You must know that turning one province into two provinces is by no means an easy task, and there are great rights and interests hidden in it.

Because one more province requires the establishment of a new administrative team, and this team does not know how many people can be promoted.

First of all, there must be an extra political envoy, which is on the same level as a minister or even a minister.

These people think they dare not get their hands on the position of the chief envoy, and they must have been appointed by Li Jing, but there are two political envoys under the chief envoy, and there are still many middle- and low-level officials under the official. Those present here can be nominated, or even appointed.

If everyone knew the news earlier, they would naturally find a way to arrange their direct descendants in a position that is conducive to promotion. Once these provinces are established, they can be promoted quickly.

But Li Jing had instructed Zhang Ao to do this a long time ago, but he didn't tell everyone. What does this mean?This shows that Li Jing has long planned to use these positions to arrange those officials in Nanjing.

Thinking of Li Jingshen's foresight and foresight, everyone immediately lost the idea of ​​taking a share in these provinces.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Jing smiled and said: "Since everyone has no opinion, let's make it so. If there is something wrong in the future, let's make adjustments again. Alright, Brother Gao, Brother Fifth, Brother Yong Chao, Brother Luo , Brother Sun and Brother Boya stay here, the rest of you should leave!"

When everyone heard the words, they hurriedly got up and bowed to leave.

After the crowd dispersed, Li Jing pointed to the seat next to him, and beckoned to Sun Meng and others, and they sat down near Li Jing.

"Xiao Jiu, spread out the map." After a few people sat down, Li Jing turned his head and said to Xiao Jiu.

Hearing this, Xiao Jiu came quickly, and unfolded a huge map in front of Li Jing. After spreading it out, Xiao Jiu immediately retreated behind Li Jing.

"Look, everyone, I just drew this map, and it shows the forces of the western countries near the southeast coast of our Ming Dynasty." Li Jing pointed to the map and said.

After hearing this, everyone hurriedly approached it, and carefully looked at it attached to the map.

After watching for a while, everyone sat down again, and Qi Qi looked at Li Jing.

Seeing a trace of doubt in everyone's eyes, Li Jing sighed lightly and said, "Do you not understand why I let you see this map?"

Sun Chuanting looked at the crowd, coughed lightly and said, "Marshal, I think these foreigners may become my Ming Dynasty's help."

Li Jing snorted, "How do you say that?"

Sun Chuanting pondered for a while and said: "The commander-in-chief opened the sea ban and established the Foreign Trade Department for the purpose of conducting trade with these foreigners from the West. And the purpose of these foreigners traveling across the ocean to Daming is the same.

Since our Ming Dynasty used to implement a policy of banning seas, these foreigners could not trade with us when they came to Daming. This is the main reason for doing business with us, and the Penghu naval battle in the fourth year of Tianqi. "

Li Jingwen smiled and said: "That's right, let's continue."

Sun Chuanting nodded and continued: "Later, Zheng Zhilong suddenly emerged and became the maritime overlord of the southeast coast. These foreigners are not Zheng Zhilong's opponents, so they can only accept Zheng Zhilong's conditions to transship goods in Taiwan. In fact, it is still a smuggling transaction.

The Marshal is now lifting the sea ban, and these foreigners will be delighted when they learn about it. Although the tax set by the Marshal is extremely high, it is too late for the transfer fee in Taiwan and the protection fee collected by Zheng Zhilong.Therefore, the officials thought that these foreigners would definitely be willing to come to Daming to do business with us.

However, due to Zheng Zhilong's influence, even if these foreigners want to come, they will not dare to come, but once we attack Zheng Zhilong, these foreigners must pay close attention to the situation in the southeast, and see that we have driven Zheng Zhilong to the sea and lost the land On the basics, how could they miss such an opportunity, they will definitely help us deal with Zheng Zhilong.

With the help of these foreigners, the elimination of Zheng Zhilong is just around the corner. "

Li Jing nodded lightly when he heard this, looked at Gao Qi, Sun Meng and the others and said, "What do you think?"

Gao Qi and the others didn't know what Li Jing was thinking, they thought for a while, and finally nodded blankly.

Seeing this, Li Jing sighed softly and said: "These foreigners will definitely help us deal with Zheng Zhilong. From a certain point of view, these foreigners are also our friends.

However, Zheng Zhilong is a native of Daming after all, and he has done a lot to protect Daming's sea and territory all these years. I did not intend to kill Zheng Zhilong when I dealt with him, but to ask him to do things for Daming with all his heart.What's more, dealing with Zheng Zhilong is our Daming's family business, how can we allow those foreigners to participate?

Zheng Zhilong can unite with the Dutch to deal with Daming and Liu Xiang, but I cannot unite with foreigners to deal with Zheng Zhilong. This is related to Daming's dignity, and it must never be done! "

Sun Chuanting hesitated for a while and said: "But those foreigners want to deal with Zheng Zhilong, we can't stop them, and as long as they attack Zheng Zhilong, they are our friends in terms of combat.

We can't fight with Zheng Zhilong, and then turn around to help Zheng Zhilong deal with foreigners, right?What's more, even if we want to help, with our current maritime strength, it seems that we can't help much. "

Li Jing smiled: "It's very contradictory, isn't it?"

Seeing everyone nodding in unison, Li Jing suddenly withdrew his smile and said solemnly: "I said just now that Zheng Zhilong has made contributions to Daming. It is because of Zheng Zhilong that the southeast sea area of ​​Ming Dynasty has been stable for so many years. If Zheng Zhilong's power disappears, based on our present How do you think those foreigners will treat Daming?

After all, you don't understand why I want to open the sea ban at this time.

I am not lifting the sea ban to win over those foreigners, but to ask them to keep their duties and not to interfere in the affairs between Daming and Zheng Zhilong. "

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he slapped his forehead suddenly: "I understand, if we don't open the sea ban, those foreigners will probably help Zheng Zhilong to deal with us in order to continue smuggling trade with sea merchants.

It is already very difficult for us to deal with Zheng Zhilong. If we add these foreigners, this battle will be even more difficult. "

Li Jingjing nodded: "If we don't open the sea ban, those foreigners are not likely to help Zheng Zhilong, but they will definitely help Zheng Zhilong. Because these foreigners have traveled across the ocean to come to our Daming, in fact, there is only one purpose, and that is profit. Give them more benefits, whoever they will cooperate with.

Now that we have lifted the sea ban, it will definitely be more profitable for foreigners than cooperating with Zheng Zhilong. At this time, they will fall to Daming.Of course, they want to remove Zheng Zhilong's thorn with our help.

But what I want is to trade with foreigners, not for them to help me deal with Zheng Zhilong. These are two completely different concepts.

In addition, what I want is to defeat Zheng Zhilong's forces, and I don't want Zheng Zhilong's ships to be wiped out.You know, it took Zheng Zhilong ten years to build a fleet of this size. If we want to build a fleet of Zheng Zhilong's size, it will take at least three to five years.Not to mention the time, the cost of building such a fleet alone is enough for us to drink a pot. "

Sun Chuanting nodded when he heard the words: "The commander-in-chief is right. To build such a fleet requires countless manpower and money. At this time last year, the commander-in-chief allocated 100 million taels of silver to me to build a shipyard and build a shipyard. Division troops. Ashamed to say, so far, we have only built two medium-sized ships and three small ships, and we are still unable to build large ships.

If this progress is followed, let alone three to five years, even ten years we will not be able to build a fleet of the size of Zheng Zhilong. "

Everyone stared at Sun Chuanting at the same time when they heard the words. After a while, Ma Wu suddenly asked, "Have you spent all 100 million taels of silver? Only five ships have been built? Is it so expensive to build a ship?"

Sun Chuanting said with a wry smile: "It is true that the 100 million taels of silver were spent, but not all of them were used for shipbuilding. They were mainly used for the construction of shipyards. To be honest, if it weren't for Rongcheng's original shipyard, we only need to build on this basis. Just expand it a bit, I'm afraid we won't be able to build five ships after the shipyard is built."

Ma Wu frowned: "It doesn't seem like one million taels of silver will be needed to build a shipyard, plus shipbuilding?"

Sun Chuanting's face changed when he heard the words: "Master Ma, do you suspect that Sun is greedy for ink?"

Seeing that Sun Chuanting was a little annoyed, Li Jing hurriedly said, "Brother Boya, don't blame me. Brother Wu speaks straight. If there are any inappropriate words, I will apologize to you on his behalf."

Sun Chuanting quickly waved his hands and said, "Don't dare, dare not."

Li Jing smiled, turned his head to look at Ma Wudao: "Fifth brother, in fact, brother Bo Ya has already reported to me, don't forget, brother Boya not only wants to build ships, but also trains the navy. This year’s military pay is nearly 20 taels.”

Ma Wu nodded repeatedly when he heard the words.

But Sun Chuanting said: "I'm ashamed, I spent a year training only [-] barely qualified sailors, I'm really ashamed of the commander's trust."

Li Jing waved his hand: "Brother Boya, don't blame yourself. I'm quite satisfied that I can train three thousand sailors."

(End of this chapter)